fatclients: Nowadays LTSP supports thin and fat clients. They are both diskless and netbooted from the same LTSP chroot, but while thin clients run the session on the server and transfer the screen, fat clients run the session locally with their own CPU/RAM, thus performing amazingly better. See also !ltsp-pnp and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/FatClients

08:38

<Basinator>

aye

08:39

That's bad news for me though.

08:52

<alkisg>

How so? You could use x2go or xfreerdp for "thin clients"

08:52

I.e. boot over LTSP, then connect with x2go/xfreerdp

08:52

<Basinator>

For us, we use LTSP to provide computer resources for low spec clients which only need something like a browser or office

08:52

I just worked myself into LTSP, lol.

08:52

<alkisg>

How "low spec"? CPU/RAM?

08:52

<Basinator>

Would it be an issue to leave the functionality for thin clients in future updates?

08:53

aye

08:53

<alkisg>

I mean, mention the specific cpu and ram for a client

08:53

<highvoltage>

thin clients won't be inherintly impossible on ltsp6 itself, you would still be able to make some kind of rdp (or whatever session)

08:53

the problem is more with how all the other upstream software has changed

08:56

<alkisg>

Thin clients were based on XDMCP or `ssh -X`, with wayland that isn't an option anymore. So using one of the other remote desktop apps, even if you netboot clients with LTSP, is a sensible choice

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11:29

<Basinator>

Sounds like that in the end I will have no choice but to have to work into the other software solutions then?

11:32

<highvoltage>

yeah XDMCP and ssh -x will become increasingly unusable

11:33

<Basinator>

Wait. I was aware of Wayland getting developed, but I didnt expect Xorg to basically die out? ._.

11:39

<highvoltage>

it's not just that, also the way that applications use xorg that changed. like, in the old days you could run gnome+compiz and all your vectors would be sent over the network and rendered locally on the thin client. which was efficient and fast. that's not possible in gnome 3 anymore.

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12:51

<alkisg>

Basinator: you didn't answer though, which CPU and how much RAM do your clients have?

12:51

Because if they're 32bit, you'll also have issues finding any distro that will support them

12:52

And if they're 64bit... well, maybe you should be running them as fat clients instead

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14:08

<Basinator>

It is for a customer so not sure about that. I think the clients are 32-bit, but would have to ask for confirmation a work mate.

14:08

Also, afk freetime now, it is beer o' clock.

14:08

<alkisg>

Basinator: well, thin clients die at the same time when distros give up on 32bit, so it's symmetrical :)